star wars episode 3 revenge of the sith blu ray torrent

I guess it never occurred to them that the file must have originated from somewhere first, Elite was just passing it along. 'Today's actions are bad news for Internet movie thieves and good news for preserving the magic of the movies,' said Hollywood's top lobbyist, Dan Glickman, the president and CEO of the Motion Picture Assn. against leading members the peer-to-peer network Elite Torrents. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) executed 10 search warrants in the U.S. The file showed up online the before it opened in theaters not because of the work of an evil file sharer with Sony's latest 'pirate' camcorder in hand, but because of another Hollywood insider leak.Īn AT&T Labs report says of a total of 285 movies AT&T researchers sampled on the p2p networks, 77% were leaked by industry 'insiders'. The film was clearly dubbed from an editors console with the time codes clearly visible across the top of the film. It was an excellent copy, distributed in a highly compressed DVD ISO image about 1.5 Gig's in size. The film, playing on more than 9,400 screens in 3,661 theaters alone accounted for 68 percent of the revenue generated by the top 12 films over the three-day weekend.Įlite Torrents, a Bit Torrent P2P Site, was one of the first peer-to-peer networks to post an illegal copy of 'Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith' before the movie officially opened in theaters. Revenge of the Sith was given the largest print run of any film in history by 20th Century Fox with 9,000 sent out in the US, compared to 8,517 for The Matrix Reloaded. It was simultaneously released in a record 115 countries on May 19 - eclipsing The Matrix Revolutions which went out in 1994.

The Star Wars blockbuster has also broken the record for largest simultaneous premiere.

It did break previous box office records for a four-day opening, taking in $158,449,700 from Thursday through Sunday, according to the box office tracking firm Exhibitor Relations. RotS raked in $ 108.4 million in North America, the second-biggest three-day box office haul ever, Since it's release it has broken three Guinness World Records. I went to see it at 2:45 AM on the 19th and then once again at 6:30 pm at another theater, bringing along my two kids. The long awaited Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Came out May 19 with much fan fair.

Star wars episode 3 revenge of the sith blu ray torrent